Although otherwise an inoffensive puff piece, CBS’s description of their virtual goddess as “fake” immediately outraged scores of Miku fans:

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‘Congrats to the author for doing absolutely no research into the matter other than reading the summary on Wikipedia.
First of all, is Mozart’s music fake because it didn’t feature singing? Miku, and the rest of the voice banks for Vocaloid, are instruments.
Sure, anyone can use Vocaloid, but just like any other instrument, it takes an artist to master it.
Also, “fake” implies that it’s a scam or doesn’t exist. I don’t see anything fake about Vocaloid; it’s simply an instrument. There’s a guitar sitting five feet to my right; are you telling me it’s not there because it has the same implications as Vocaloid?
Finally, every other popstar who’s conditioned for their image rather than voice or talent are just as fake if Miku is fake.
Have fun with your content-free articles and questionable reporters, CBS.’
‘The world is filled with fake celebrities, pretending to be something they are not, remade by image consultants, keeping up appearances with a polished veneer.
Hatsune Miku is none of these things. She is exactly what she appears to be, with no pretence or deception. She is the sum total of the hopes and dreams and creative energy of her legions of adoring fans, and can be nothing else. She is quite possibly the most genuine celebrity to ever grace the earth.’
‘I respectfully ask that you retract that HORRIBLE and MISLEADING title. Hatsune Miku is by no mean FAKE. Calling Hatsune Miku fake is the equivalent of calling ALL of the fan, artists, composers, singers, animators, that celebrate this movement FAKE. It’s an insult.’
‘If anything, it’s more insulting that you didn’t do much research than it is that you said “fake.”‘
‘Well, Great job on doing no research! For one thing, you looked at Wikipedia, and everyone knows that they aren’t completely right. Due to the fact that anyone can edit Wikipedia, it comes up with weird BS.
On top of that, this is just a stupid article! Miku isn’t “fake”! On the contrary, she is most very real, and extremely loved. She was voiced by a REAL woman named Saki Fujita!
I do realize that Vocaloids are just programs, and I would be stupid to not know that. She has a character that the fanbase has given her, but now Crypton has taken it on. Hatsune Miku and every other vocaloid, are amazing creations.
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Miku is more real of an idol, then most of us will ever be.’
‘Whoever wrote the article, I would like to politely ask to change the title into something that WOULD NOT annoy/**** off Miku’s fans.
Well, I got pissed off when I saw the title. FAKE is not the word, okay? It’s like you’re breaking her image >:/
Please change the title and everything will be okay.’
‘Note for journalist:
There are a few hot button words and phrases with Miku fandom. One, as you might have guessed, is the word “fake”, or the related phrase “she’s not real.”
Almost as touchy is the phrase “what anime is she from?” or “she’s an anime character.”
Just a suggestion, maybe replace “fakest” (omg that even sounds awkward) with “most unreal.” Unreal is normally used when something is so awesome, reality is incapable of inventing it alone.’
‘When one uses the word “fakest” when reporting in a news article, it leads me to believe their background research goes only as far as it takes to roll an office chair over to a thesaurus.
To address the use of fake in a general sense, we can establish that the adjective form of fake means something which is counterfeit or a sham.
To my knowledge, there is nothing counterfeit about a digital pop star whose image is derived from a vast fan-base.’
‘Hey BAILEY JOHNSON fyi she is CREATED so she is not FAKE and she is way to better than Gaga and Justin Bieber. Your article really sucks. Why this been released through this site? This article is worthless!’
‘This post is very derogatory and unprofessional. What can we expect from Americans. Please inquire more information about this topic even more. Hatsune Miku is a tool to create music, “She” is like every other item is able to create good music and express the creators feelings and music. Therefore its not considered “fake”.’
‘The numerous problems with this article astound me.
First of all, “fakest” is not a word. Dictionaries are fabulous tools that someone needs to introduce this writer to. Also, using “fake” to describe Miku really gives readers the wrong impression. Is it fake when a person devotes their time and effort into putting their feelings into a song?
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Now I am going to assume that CBS was joking when they hired this…sham of a writer. Using Wikipedia as a source? You do realize that students are not even allowed to use Wikipedia in high school because of the unreliability, correct?
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Well, I could go on and on, but I would just be wasting my time. Goodbye CBS, have fun with your shoddy articles and reporters.’

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Personally, I recognize Hatsune Miku as an instrument or a program synthesizer. Since vocaloid is a program that creates or imitate a barely human-like voice like Miku's then she is considered a pop star and not fake. The only difference is that she is virtual but not fake.

For the logic:
domain of x: Hatsune Miku
Let p: x is a program
let s: x imitates a barely human-like voice
let q: x is considered a popstar
let r: x is not fake.

I saw nothing disrespectful in the article. In fact it seemed the guy behind it was rather impressed by Miku. He used the word 'fake' because he was, in my opinion, genuinely impressed by the fact that a fabricated character could perform so well. Also he used a sampling of her music in the article which is a lovely performance of Miku's rather than something awkward and weird such as the Vegetable Juice Dance which CNN used in their own article.

Yet to hear a song by "Hatsune Miku" that I enjoyed. Most of it is garbage. Fakest sounds about right to me, seeing as she only conveys the songs that others makes and isn't real to begin with. I don't see why people are getting so upset. Maybe it is time to realise that she isn't a real human being who will be your little sister/girlfriend.

I find it fascsinating that she has 'live' shows that are well attended. I think she is a cute video game character and has inspired some great cosplay but live shows surprised me. I suppose she isn't much less live than a lip synched Britney Spears concert...

Yet to hear a song by "Hatsune Miku" that I enjoyed. Most of it is garbage. Fakest sounds about right to me, seeing as she only conveys the songs that others makes and isn't real to begin with. I don't see why people are getting so upset. Maybe it is time to realise that she isn't a real human being who will be your little sister/girlfriend.

The character itself is not the pop star, but the voice that goes with it, however, is based on someone's voice, so you can't entirely dismiss it. The problem with Vocaloid, like any other singer, you're not going to like certain vocaloids or all of the songs they are in.

Now, as to why they created characters for these voices is somewhat perplexing, but regardless they still give you a visual. Fans associate the vocaloid with their desginated character design and basing all their fandom on that rather than the original voice sampler.

But you can look at it this way, the vocaloid may be a sample of someone's voice, but that person is not doing the performance. You don't credit the creator of an instrument, you credit the performer. The performer in this case is the fictional Miku performing the song writer's lyrics.

Either way it's not like I care. I like what I listen to, I don't care what anyone else says, and I'm definitely not hurt over comment on a fictional character.

Don't care that its just animation on a stage, its great:) I really don't care about the people who sing the song, if its good I will get it (sure its helpful to know the artist's name, but there should be no problem with that -.- "Hatsune Miku")

Anyway they are good, and the animation is good enough xD So.. what's the problem:)